Re: [Debian Installer] General release plan for RC1

2006-10-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 10 octobre 2006 à 07:18 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe a écrit : > On 10/8/06, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > > > Just today mike emmel fixed the "boom" bug, it should technically > > > possible switching to GTK+ 2.10.x. > > > > R

Re: Call for votes for "GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel"

2006-10-09 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > c2d43675-9efa-4809-a4aa-af042b62786e > [ 1 ] Choice 1: Release Etch even with kernel firmware issues > [ 3 ] Choice 2: Special exception to DFSG2 for firmware as long as req

Re: [Debian Installer] General release plan for RC1

2006-10-09 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/8/06, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote: > Just today mike emmel fixed the "boom" bug, it should technically > possible switching to GTK+ 2.10.x. Repeating this here for other readers: 2.10.6-2 in experimental was uploaded today with th

Re: Why weren't the GR voting mails sent to debian-devel-announce?

2006-10-09 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-09 12:56:03 -0600]: > According to the chapter 3.3 of the Dev. reference the GR calls for votes > should've been sent to the debian-devel-announce, but in reality they weren't. > It seems that the only way to get those would be to subscribe to de

Re: Why weren't the GR voting mails sent to debian-devel-announce?

2006-10-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 09 Oct 2006, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > According to the chapter 3.3 of the Dev. reference the GR calls for votes > should've been sent to the debian-devel-announce, but in reality they weren't. They *were* sent to the d-d-a mailinglist, check the archives. -- "One disk to rule them

Re: Bug#391686: ITP: ipw3945-daemon -- Binary userspace regulatory daemon for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG cards

2006-10-09 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:43:55PM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: > On 10/09/06 08:38:46AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > Jim Crilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Intel's daemon isn't as bad as the Atheros HAL or nVidia's blob > > > > Could you please elaborat on that? why is ath_hal.ko or

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:23:48 +0200, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the > >users learn about looking at README.Debian :) That is, "they should be paying more attention t

Re: gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:39:07PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Roberto C. Sanchez] > > That is a problem if I want to server everything up out of LDAP. > > There really should be a "reserved" range, maybe 100-499 of Debian > > gids, where they are assigned in a predertmined way. > > I don'

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-09 Thread Alex Pennace
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:16:51PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > I propose another solution. Introduce init-common with wrappers: > * /sbin/init is a binary that > - reads a configuration file with the init system name and > - creates a file /var/run/inittype (or whereever is can be stored a

Re: Why weren't the GR voting mails sent to debian-devel-announce?

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel Martin
Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to the chapter 3.3 of the Dev. reference the GR calls for votes > should've been sent to the debian-devel-announce, but in reality they weren't. > It seems that the only way to get those would be to subscribe to debian-vote > or to trawl

Re: Why weren't the GR voting mails sent to debian-devel-announce?

2006-10-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:56:03 -0600, Oleksandr Moskalenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > According to the chapter 3.3 of the Dev. reference the GR calls for The dev ref is not authoritative on voting procedure. > votes should've been sent to the debian-devel-announce, but in > reality they

Re: Why weren't the GR voting mails sent to debian-devel-announce?

2006-10-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 12:56 -0600, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: > According to the chapter 3.3 of the Dev. reference the GR calls for votes > should've been sent to the debian-devel-announce, but in reality they weren't. > It seems that the only way to get those would be to subscribe to debian-vote

Re: Why weren't the GR voting mails sent to debian-devel-announce?

2006-10-09 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Oleksandr Moskalenko said: > According to the chapter 3.3 of the Dev. reference the GR calls for votes > should've been sent to the debian-devel-announce, but in reality they weren't. > It seems that the only way to get those would be to subscribe to debian-vote > or to

Re: gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 07:09:14PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have started working with transitioning a network to LDAP. I am still > > experimenting with this at home before implementing it "for real." This > > brings me to my concern. It

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-10-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Theodore Tso] > The e2fsprogs-udeb package does include the mke2fs.conf file, so if > the installer is using the latest e2fsprogs-udeb, it should be > creating filesystems with the dir_index and resize_inode features. Soon the etch installer is using the latest mkfs.ext3 to create the file system

Re: ftp upload queue?

2006-10-09 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 22:42 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Aurélien GÉRÔME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As soon as I send a mail, the deamon restarts... Good news! ;) > Yep. Thanks magic elves! Then please help again elves! :-) The daemon is down again. :( Cheers, Laszlo/GCS -- To UNS

Re: gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-09 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Roberto C. Sanchez] > That is a problem if I want to server everything up out of LDAP. > There really should be a "reserved" range, maybe 100-499 of Debian > gids, where they are assigned in a predertmined way. I don't think it's a good idea to put system users and groups into LDAP anyway. They

Debian arch and package survey update

2006-10-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
The number of machines reporting to popcon.debian.org continues to grow. This is great. There are now 17338 machines reporting their statistics. The package usage stats are used to order the packages on the CDs and DVDs, among other things. This is the current architecture distribution:

Why weren't the GR voting mails sent to debian-devel-announce?

2006-10-09 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
According to the chapter 3.3 of the Dev. reference the GR calls for votes should've been sent to the debian-devel-announce, but in reality they weren't. It seems that the only way to get those would be to subscribe to debian-vote or to trawl the debian-vote archives. Why is it so? Regards, Alex.

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-09 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Marc Haber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > After having this discussed here, I am now inclined to allow @ in user > names if --force-badname was given or NAME_REGEX was configured > appropriately. > > I'll make that change thursday evening unless some new arguments were > shown here. > I've jus

Re: Bug#391686: ITP: ipw3945-daemon -- Binary userspace regulatory daemon for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG cards

2006-10-09 Thread Jim Crilly
On 10/09/06 08:38:46AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Jim Crilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Intel's daemon isn't as bad as the Atheros HAL or nVidia's blob > > Could you please elaborat on that? why is ath_hal.ko or nvidia.ko worse > than intel's daemon? > > The only real difference is

Re: gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have started working with transitioning a network to LDAP. I am still > experimenting with this at home before implementing it "for real." This > brings me to my concern. It appears that many groups are added to the > system "willy-nilly." By th

gids assigned non-deterministically

2006-10-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
I have started working with transitioning a network to LDAP. I am still experimenting with this at home before implementing it "for real." This brings me to my concern. It appears that many groups are added to the system "willy-nilly." By that I mean, I have one system where part of the /etc/gr

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-10-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: W: gnumed-client-debug: menu-command-not-in-package /usr/share/menu/gnumed-client-debug:5 x-terminal-emulator Shouldn't a Depends: xterm | x-terminal-emulator be enough here? I admit that it might be hard to define a lintian rule to verify the c

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-10-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:33:03PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > The solution that was suggested by you and Philipp Benner seems to be not > aware to lintian > > W: gnumed-client-debug: menu-command-not-in-package > /usr/share/menu/gnumed-client-debug:5 x-terminal-emulator > > Shouldn't a > >

Bug#391905: ITP: qt4-qtruby -- ruby bindings for the Qt4 GUI library

2006-10-09 Thread Vincent Fourmond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qt4-qtruby Version : 1.4.6 Upstream Author : Richard Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://rubyforge.org/projects/korundum/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++, Ru

Vote page locations on the recent call for votes

2006-10-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The call for votes sent our recently had a URL for the full text that we missing a path segment -- namely, the year. So, the correct URL's would be: http://vote.debian.org/2006/vote_005 http://vote.debian.org/2006/vote_006 http://vote.debian.org/2006/vote_007 A visit to h

Re: Replacement Superintendent

2006-10-09 Thread Bryan Milton
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Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 09 Oct 2006, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:53:39PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > No wrappers for the single most critical binary in a Unix system after the > > libc. Sorry. > > Right. How about upstart not providing a /sbin/init binary at all, but > inst

Re: Help with menu

2006-10-09 Thread Frank Küster
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: > >> I suggest a simpler route (untested): >> >> command="x-terminal-emulator -e /bin/sh -c \"gnumed;echo press any key to >> continue;read foo\"" >> >> Note that it does not really solve the dependency on xterm

Unidentified subject!

2006-10-09 Thread James Richardson
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MIA: Masayuki Hatta

2006-10-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is Masayuki Hatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIA? I have sent him an email like one week ago and he does not reply to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377933 Prueba el correo Terra ( http://www.terra.es/correo ); Seguro, rápido, fiable.

Re: Help with menu (Was: Bug#389932: wish: gnumed --debug should open terminal window)

2006-10-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: I suggest a simpler route (untested): command="x-terminal-emulator -e /bin/sh -c \"gnumed;echo press any key to continue;read foo\"" Note that it does not really solve the dependency on xterm: it merely replaces it on a depdendency on any terminal-em

Re: Allowing @ in user names?

2006-10-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 00:45:08 +0100, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not sure any of the suspicions have any bearing on question #2, >however: should adduser be allowed to add usernames of this format, when >told to with suitable --force flags? After having this discussed here, I am now

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-09 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:44:00AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > We don't really need the ability to install *multiple* init systems in > parallel imho Yes we do, for the same reason we allow multiple kernel images to be installed simultaneously: if the new one does not work, there should be a wa

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 09 October 2006 11:32, Marc Haber took the opportunity to say: > On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:23:48 +0200, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:08 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> >The ultimate solution would be it dpkg-reconfigure magically knew that > >> > when

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:23:48 +0200, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:08 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> >The ultimate solution would be it dpkg-reconfigure magically knew that when >> >configuring exim4, it must actually configure exim4-config. > >funny, i'd have said t

Re: Call for votes for "GR: Recall the project leader"

2006-10-09 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2006-10-07 at 18:55 -0500, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > 49a98df6-2bd4-40c8-a559-7e15212dbd26 > [ 2 ] Choice 1: Recall the project leader > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Further discussion > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anyth

Re: anticipating the upstart migration

2006-10-09 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:53:39PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > No wrappers for the single most critical binary in a Unix system after the > libc. Sorry. Right. How about upstart not providing a /sbin/init binary at all, but instead using an "init=/sbin/upstart" boot parameter? Th

Re: ftp upload queue?

2006-10-09 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Monday, October 09, 2006 6:42 AM, Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aurélien GÉRÔME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> As soon as I send a mail, the deamon restarts... Good news! ;) > > Yep. Thanks magic elves! I've never really pictured aj as an elf... ;-) Adam -- To UNSUBSC

Superintendent Backup

2006-10-09 Thread Salvatore Davison
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Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread sean finney
hey marc, On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:08 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >The ultimate solution would be it dpkg-reconfigure magically knew that when > >configuring exim4, it must actually configure exim4-config. funny, i'd have said the ultimate solution was finding a way to make the users learn about

Re: Call for votes for "GR: Re-affirm support to the Debian Project Leader"

2006-10-09 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Debian Project Secretary [Sat, Oct 07 2006, 06:53:35PM]: > - - -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > a65763d3-b1e2-4530-8ff8-aa5915274eb4 > [ 2 ] Choice 1: Re-affirm DPL, wish success to unofficial Dunc Tank > [ 1 ] Choice 2: Re-affirm DPL, do not en

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 23:22:05 +0200, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am Sonntag 08 Oktober 2006 22:58 schrieb James Westby: >> The default level when doing dpkg-reconfigure is low, so that it wont be >> seen on installation, but if the user tries to reconfigure exim4 they >> will be direc

Re: how to tell people to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-_CONFIG_?

2006-10-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:47:44 +0200, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >/usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian.gz: That is one of the most ignored files on any Debian system. Users are so incredibly stupid! Did you miss that exim4 is my package, and that you are pointing me towards documentat